I am thinking of buying one of these portable VCD players,but I have one question really : Does this machine play CDR backups of my personal movie collection? I have CDR films in MPEG and AVE (or AVI,whatever you want to call it) formats and just want a simple answer as to what this machine plays,as I cannot find any information on this. So is this just a machine that plays cheap,imported crap pic VCDs,or can it play anything?

Thanks in advance!

-- Lee Valentine (lee.valentine@btopenworld.com), November 27, 2002

Answers

I have some experience with VCD portables, but not the Panasonic one. I can tell you that none of them will play AVI files. They will play VCD, which is MPEG-1 video, but most of them don't play homemade VCDs very well. They play commercial ones fine. It has something to do with what software you burn with and what CD-R media you use. All I could figure out is that none of the portables I tried liked VCDs made with Nero very much. I would make sure you can return it before you buy because you may be VERY disappointed in the results of trying to play homemade VCDs on any portable you buy.

-- Root (root@yahoo.moc), November 27, 2002.

www.mp3playerstore.com

go to the side bar and click on the vcd sec. i bought the "av baby" which is no longer available, and it works EXCELLENTLY ! it plays all my burns and rips.

it'll tell you what it can and cant play, if it says cd-r cd-rw, you're fine, just make sure when you burn them with nero, it dosnt say anything like "this mpeg-1 file is not of standard compliance blah blah blah" because then the vcd will be CRAP...

-- Artimus clive (mrdrmequickly@aol.com), November 28, 2002.

i want full version of this player

-- dhdambalkar (dhdambalkar@rediffmail.com), December 01, 2002.